Well, a large proportion of words in the english language are foreign load words (which explains some of the plain retarded spelling problems they have). Latin, ancient greek, and french being the major contributers. The oldest words are 'one', 'I', 'we' 'three', 'four' (at least I think so), and they date back thousands of years.
And german as a language does sound cool. Not so much in a romantic sense, but its great for shouting - the opposite of french.